Continuous learning is core to broadening our colleagues’ perspectives and necessary for innovation. Additionally, new skills improve colleagues’ ability to cope with stress and build resiliency.
Employees work in a world of uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. We must find new ways to give them knowledge and skills required to succeed. Our solutions should be simple, relevant to the moment of need, and most importantly, effective.
- Tom Spahr, Human Resources Vice President – Talent Management and Development
The Home Depot
As the skills of the future continue to evolve, there’s one skill to sharpen that will unlock all the others: learn how to learn in the fast-paced, rapidly changing, modern world.
- David Campbell, Vice President, Chief Learning Officer
The past year has absolutely accelerated the focus on a skills-based versus line-of-business-based approach to learning and career development.
- Josh Bronstein, Head of Learning and Leadership Development
Bank of America
The evolving marketplace is pushing employees to build skills that are relevant now and tomorrow. Learning tools and purposeful development provide employees with the resources to compete and grow in this ever-changing landscape.
Participants have the opportunity to earn an associate degree at a local community college while gaining valuable on-thejob experience, and with Atrium Health Navicent helping to pay for tuition, books and fees.
Edmunds. Edmunds, a prominent name in consumer vehicle guides, offers a 100 per cent match for employee's pre-tax and Roth 401k contributions, up to 6 per cent of their eligible salary.
With a dollar-for-dollar match (aka a full match or 100% match), your employer puts in the same amount of money you do — again up to a certain amount. An example might be dollar-for-dollar up to 4% of your salary.
Both large and small companies offer this benefit. In fact, the Society for Human Resource Management reported that 48% of employers provided tuition reimbursem*nt to their workers. Taking advantage of this benefit could help offset the cost of your education and reduce the need for student loans.
Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health announced Friday the two providers have closed their merger deal, becoming the nation's fifth-largest nonprofit health system by revenue.
If you don't know whether your employer matches employee contributions, you should check the plan document to know if your employer offers 401(k) matching, and when it makes matching contributions. As long as the employer offers a match, you should contribute enough not to leave free money on the table.
Anything above 5% of compensation is considered a good employer match. As you'll see below, some companies offer employer matching up to 25% of compensation.
Depending on the employer's terms regarding the 401(k) plan offered, catch-up contributions can technically be matched if the employer contributes up to the amount allowed by the IRS. U.S. Department of the Treasury. "Treasury Provides Guidance on Catch-Up Contributions." Internal Revenue Service.
While you should aim high and ask for the best possible 401(k) match, you should also be prepared to compromise and accept a lower or alternative offer. You need to be flexible and realistic about what your employer can afford and offer, and what trade-offs you are willing to make.
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